A senior Israeli source and a senior member of Hamas rejected a report that cited an unnamed source from Hamas that an agreement to start a ceasefire on Monday and release a number of hostages had been reached on Sunday.

The Jordanian al-Ghad newspaper reported that a source from Hamas had said that a five-day ceasefire would start at 11 am on Monday and that 50 hostages held by Hamas would be released in exchange for 50 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. A senior Israeli source stated that “there is nothing as of now.”

[The Washington Post has been flogging that same report since Saturday evening, just as they have kept flogging such rumors as fact almost since 10/8. The White House appears to be feeding these rumors to the US media, which then swallows them despite every single one of them being proven wrong. Biden and his team clearly want to get a cease-fire for their own political standing and are trying to pressure Israel into one. I may have more on that later. — Ed]